U.S. army training for street warfare

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KnoxNews.com Army's new warfare training center preps troops for street fighting August 13, 2000 By Kimberly Hefling, ***ociated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- Ground was broken recently on a project that will transform a quiet forest into a mock city to prepare Army soldiers for the modern world of urban warfare.
The high-tech Military Operation on Urbanized Terrain, or "MOUT," site at Fort Campbell will resemble a typical city.
Thousands of soldiers will be trained to battle in a densely populated area.
It will include elaborate sound effects mimicking urban sounds, such as children playing and fighter planes entering and leaving a city.
There will also be mobile pop-up targets of enemy soldiers and civilians.
A video system at the facility will allow post-training reviews.
"It will provide our troops with unmatched realism and tactical scenarios that will better prepare them for combat, and they will be able to conduct this training safely," said Richard A. Cody, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division.
The first phase will include 19 intact buildings, three buildings in rubble, two rest rooms and an after-action review facility at a cost of $14.4 million.
Construction is expected to be completed by fall 2002.
Funding has not yet been secured for the second phase, which would add nine intact buildings and five rubble buildings at a cost of $10.5 million.
The MOUT site is larger than a similar one that opened last year at Fort Knox.
Army leaders say the urban warfare training centers are necessary as the military engages in more peacekeeping missions like those in Bosnia or Kosovo.
"Our history tells us combat in urban areas is physically hard, dirty, tactical, tough and very lethal," Cody said.
"As we look at the potential hot spots throughout the world today, we know that the battle space of the 21st century will be in and around cities and urban areas." In urban warfare, soldiers also must deal with a higher concentration of civilians, and they need to learn how to interact with the civilians in a battle scenario, said Jim McConville, director of operations for the 101st Airborne Division.
"The enemy will go in there and intermingle with civilians, and we don't want to hurt civilians," McConville said.
The urban centers are necessary as the number of military personnel in the nation shrinks, but the job demands increase, said Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Republican from the 1st District.
"We must give them the tools to get the job done," Whitfield said.
Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee border, has a military population of 23,391.
Copyright ?© 2000, The ***ociated Press. All Rights Reserved Monday, August 14, 2000

Amigocabal amigoca...@my-deja.com

IDIOT! EVERY ARMY TRAINS TO FIGHT IN THE STREETS! UNLIKE THE SERBIAN FASCISTS CHETNIK ARMY WHICH IS TRAINED TO THROW THE CHILDREN UNDER THE MOVING TANKS!
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy Sarajevo ? :-) B. O. Rights' News <brig...@freespeech.net> wrote in message ...

Amigocabal amigoca...@my-deja.com

If Sarajevo was for sale!
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Kyriakos kyria...@bigfoot.com

Depends on who is doing the buying and for what final goal it is intended for.
What you have to realize is , that like many countries in the past that have tried to protect what they believe to be part of there culture , religion and civilization, Serbia has and will try to continue to do so with the Kosovo province of there Country. The USA might be the most powerful military machine in the world, but are your memories short?
What happened in Vietnam and Korea.
Yugoslavia is a strong Military country, for what they have and been through over the years , from World War 1 and 2 and the period of the Cold War.
Never underestimate the opposition it could backfire on you.

"Jack Stone" stlja...@my-dejaNOSPAM.com

Last time I've heard, Sarajevo was in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I didn't write a word about Kosovo.

ec ...@interaccess.com (Eisen Chao)

Does this include m***acreing and expelling ethnic Albanian KosovArs who are trying ot protect THEIR religion, THEIR culture, THEIR Civilization ?
: The USA might be the most powerful military machine in the world, : but are your memories short?
Forgetting about the Gulf, Panama, the 2 US bombings of the Serb army prior to KosovA as well as the utter, *UTTER* butt-kicking of the now-extinct USSR ?
: What happened in Vietnam and Korea.
Korea - A Soviet-instigated invasion by Stalin/Kim Il Sung stopped. The part protected by the US a prospering hi-tech country, the part not protected undergoing famines with deaths in the millions.
Vietnam - Now trying to resume normal ties with the US to counter the influence of regional power, the PRC. This would include cultural, political, technological as well as MILITARY cooperation.
USSR - Instigator of trouble world-wide: Like Dust in the Wind.
: Yugoslavia is a strong Military country, Is that why they got their butts kicked 4 out of 4 the last 10 years ?
Serbia had 800-900 AAA missiles before KosovA, they then shot off about 600-700 and yet only downed (2) NATO planes.
What makes you think they won't get the sh*t bombed out of them the next time ?
: for what they have and been through over the years , from World War 1 : and 2 and the period of the Cold War.
: : Never underestimate the opposition it could backfire on you.
It is an arrogant Serbia which still thinks it can bully its neighbors. It once thought that it could roll over Croatia and BiH in less than a month. They returned home on their tractors.
Now it thinks it can manhandle the Montenegrins,Serbia has another coming to it.

Anri Erinin a...@inet.bg

Wake up, brush your teeth, read some books.
CNN is NOT the only source of information.
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Amigocabal amigoca...@my-deja.com

EXACTLY, AND SERBS CAN GO TO THE SWAMPS OF MOGILEV WHERE THEY CAME FROM
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ec ...@interaccess.com (Eisen Chao)

Riiiight. I should be listening to the ever-
dwindling supporters of Serbs instead.
This would include Communists, Neo-Nazis, Cubans, North Koreans, and Iraqis.
But not the Russians, Greeks, or Chinese who seem to have already turned theiir backs on Serbia.
: A. Erinin

Anri Erinin a...@inet.bg

You did not read the book, but you do not like it?
How can you make your oppinion listening only to one of the sides?
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Amigocabal amigoca...@my-deja.com

AND RUSSIANS STARTED KILLING THEIR OWN, FIRST EXPLODING 150 ATOMIC BOMBS IN KAZAKHSTAN ON THE SURFACE, CAUSING DEATH OF 1,5 MILLION KAZAKHS FROM LEUKEMIA, AND NOW EXTERMINATING SOME 100,000 CHECHENS, MAINLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN! TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT OUTRIGHT EXTERMINATION OF TATARS, UIGURS AND A DOZEN NATIONS OF SAKHALIN!
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With or without the US and the USSR, the world would have fought the wars anyway. Up until 1972, the majority of Israeli equipment was French, British, and Czech. While S. Africa makes it's own weapons that it used to support wars in Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia(Zimbabwe), and hold onto Nambia. China and India churned out it's own fair share of weapons as well. And Those Scud Missles Saddam Hussein had/has were bought from China and N. Korea. And the poison gas Saddam Hussein used on the Kurds was bought from Germany.
No in the 1980s a Soviet leader pushed for greater freedoms for the Soviet people, and with greater freedoms the Soviet people soon realized that thier country was bankrupt and couldn't really afford to simply give away military hardware anymore. Russia still however sells huge quantities of military hardware to other nations, Yugoslavia among them.
Maturity and pacifism? You have heard of Chechnya and Dagestan haven't you? You have heard of Russian military sales to Iran either, another of those "mature pacific" nations, right?
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